Oxylabs Review 2026: Pricing, Pros, Cons and Alternatives

The buying question is not which Oxylabs product to open, because every product spends the same subscription. Residential proxies, mobile proxies, ISP proxies, datacenter proxies, Web Unblocker, Agent Browser, and the Web API all sit on one plan. A separate proxy contract and a separate scraper contract are not on this bill.

A team that spends the plan on residential gigabytes does not also receive the Google JS ceiling. Those rows are two ways to spend the same fee, not a bundle, so a full residential month leaves the API unpaid.

Toolradar data: as of October 16, 2026, Toolradar's data and databases ranking evaluated 652 tools.

Oxylabs is filed in that category, and its directory page aggregates 443 reviews at 4.6/5 from G2 and Capterra, last checked September 17, 2026.

The Bright Data and Decodo pages are the other two catalog records worth opening with it, because those bills sit beside this column.

How we compared: cards and per-product rates were read on October 17, 2026, on Oxylabs' pricing pages, then on Bright Data's residential pricing page, Decodo's residential page, ScrapingBee's pricing page, and Zyte's pricing page.

No account was created and no scrape was run. The method is the one on how we rate.

Oxylabs is a public web data company founded in 2015, and in 2022 it acquired Webshare, a self-serve proxy platform. This review prices the Oxylabs subscription, not Webshare's separate cards, so a Webshare quote is a different bill, and the HQ office is in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The residential product is the row most teams open first. The product page says 175M+ IPs across 195 countries, with targeting by country, city, state, continent, ZIP, coordinates, and ASN. That reach covers a multi-country crawl, and it is still thin if the job needs one city.

That pool figure is not a count of addresses online at once. Oxylabs' FAQ multiplies the pool by unique exit nodes per day and by the days in a quarter, and the result changes by month, so a listed city can be thin on the day you run.

A location table lists 10,353,360 US IPs, the largest country line, so the United States has the deepest published inventory. Bright Data's residential page says 400M+ rotating residential IPs on a different counting method, and the two headlines are not one snapshot.

The product page prints a 0.41 second response time, and the pricing row prints an average of 0.6 seconds plus an average success rate, with HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/3, and SOCKS5, and sticky or rotating sessions. Both timings are published figures, so a blocked target can miss them.

Oxylabs limits the residential pool to consenting users who are paid for shared traffic. IP-version and platform filters may require a short KYC check, so they are not instant. Bright Data's compliance review comes before residential or mobile use and can stall a same-day start.

The residential pricing FAQ blocks a set of targets and says the list is not complete. It names Apple domains, including iTunes and the App Store, entertainment such as Playstation, banking and other financial institutions, some Google domains, government websites, streaming, ticketing, and mailing.

A plan bought for one of those categories will not turn into a credit at month end.

A new account receives the welcome credit at registration, posted immediately and only once. Use it to evaluate the product, because self-service purchases are non-refundable. A team that needs a free month, or a refund after a bad week, should start elsewhere.

The dashboard is one subscription for every product on the menu. Oxylabs says you can split spending by target, set limits, watch usage and success rates, generate endpoints, and whitelist IPs.

The residential pricing page lists 3 proxy users and 10 whitelisted IPs, and it publishes no higher cap on the self-serve cards, so a wider team cannot assume the next card adds seats.

Connecting is an endpoint you drop into an HTTP client. The FAQ walks through region, user authentication or a whitelist, a backconnect entry or a country endpoint, then sticky or rotating sessions.

Country endpoints can target a country only, while backconnect entries can target continent, country, state, or city, so a city-level job has to use the backconnect entry.

The monthly plan sets the transfer limit, and the FAQ says you can upgrade or top up at any time to raise the allowance. Oxylabs publishes no top-up price, so an overshoot has a published next plan rather than a per-gigabyte overage.

Prices checked on October 17, 2026 on Oxylabs pricing, the residential pricing page, the Web API scrape pricing page, and the Web Unblocker pricing page.

Competitor rates are from Bright Data residential pricing, Decodo residential proxies, ScrapingBee pricing, and Zyte pricing.

Devshot data: 28,000+ developer readers get this brief, and the audience file updated October 18, 2026 puts the open rate at 32%. A coupon that expires belongs in the yearly forecast, not only on the first invoice. Later price changes show up in the Devshot brief.

Our scenario is 20 GB of residential traffic and nothing else, and that volume is our assumption. Oxylabs Basic covers that volume at $5/GB, while Starter's residential ceiling is 5 GB, so this month does not fit the entry card.

There is no published top-up rate between the cards, and the next self-serve card is Flexible at $500/mo, up to 125 GB of residential traffic, so a small overshoot still buys that larger card.

Decodo pay as you go is $4/GB with no monthly commitment, and the page says prices exclude VAT, so the printed total is not the invoice if tax is added. That volume at the pay-as-you-go rate is $80 before VAT, which undercuts Basic before tax.

The 25 GB monthly plan is $3.25/GB, total $81.25 before VAT, nearly the same pre-tax total.

A smaller month can take the 3 GB plan at $11.25 before VAT. The trial is 3 days and 100 MB, and the 14-day money-back does not cover trial usage.

Bright Data pay as you go lists $8/GB with no commitment, and that volume at the list rate is $160. Code RESIGB50 takes 50% off residential proxies for 3 months, so the coupon bill for this month is $80, and the list rate is the one to keep after that.

The $499/mo card includes 141 GB at $3.50/GB while the coupon shows, against a list rate of $7/GB, which is far more traffic than this comparison needs. Residential and mobile use requires Bright Data's KYC process before the network opens.

A free trial is on the page, and the first deposit is matched dollar for dollar, up to $500.

A second scenario is 20,000 Google JS results and no residential traffic. On Oxylabs Starter the Google JS rate is $1.35 per 1,000, with a ceiling of 22,000 results, so that job is $27 and it fits when Google JS is the only product running.

Add the residential month and Basic's residential cell is already full, so those API results are not a free add-on.

ScrapingBee bills credits, not gigabytes, and a successful request starts at 1 credit, JS rendering costs 5 credits, and premium proxies cost 10 or 25 credits depending on JS rendering. Credits last one month and do not roll over, so a quiet month still spends the plan.

Twenty thousand JS pages are 100,000 credits, above Hobby at $19/mo for 75,000 credits and inside Freelance at $49/mo for 250,000 credits. The same pages on premium proxies land between 200,000 and 500,000 credits, so they fit Freelance or need Startup at $99/mo for 1,000,000 credits, depending on which premium rate applies. The free allowance is 1,000 credits, with no card.

Zyte bills successful responses, and a site tier from simple to advanced sets the rate, so you learn the price by submitting the URL. Pay as you go HTTP runs from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000, and browser rendering on pay as you go runs from $1.01 to $16.08 per 1,000.

Twenty thousand simple browser responses are $20.20, and the same count on the advanced tier is $321.60.

The page leads with $0.06 per 1,000 successful responses, which is the simple HTTP rate on the $500 per month commitment, not the pay-as-you-go rate. A $5 free credit and 30 days to try require no commitment. Above a commitment, Zyte says you stay on that tier's rate, with no overage penalty.

Oxylabs fits a developer or a small data team that wants residential IPs and a managed scraper on one invoice, and that can stay inside one column. Starter is the card when the month is a few gigabytes or a few tens of thousands of API results, and not both at full stretch. Basic is the card when the month is the residential comparison and little else.

Skip it when the targets are on the blocked list, when you need a refund if the first paid month fails, or when that residential month is the whole job and a per-GB pack is cheaper. Decodo is the comparison for a printed total before VAT.

Bright Data is the comparison when the target is defended and you will complete KYC. The longer list is the residential proxies guide, and the product write-up is the Bright Data review.

Skip Oxylabs when you want a prebuilt actor or markdown for an agent, because this bill meters bandwidth and API results rather than a finished dataset.

The Apify review covers scheduled actors, the Firecrawl review covers page-to-markdown credits, and the wider set is the web scraping tools guide.

A job that fails without an alert still spends the plan, which is why the monitoring tools guide belongs next to the proxy bill.